Rules for rulers: Obscure texts, authority, and policing in two Malay states

Authors
Barnard, TP
Citation
Tp. Barnard, Rules for rulers: Obscure texts, authority, and policing in two Malay states, J SE ASIA S, 32(2), 2001, pp. 211-225
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Politucal Science & public Administration
Journal title
JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
ISSN journal
00224634 → ACNP
Volume
32
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
211 - 225
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4634(200106)32:2<211:RFROTA>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Police manuals produced in the Siak and Riau-Lingga sultanates during the 1 890s reveal something of the concerns of each society in an early stage of colonial state formation, and how they dealt with changing understandings o f crime and punishment. Despite their many similarities, the manuals show t hat each Malay state had a distinctive character, and differed in its appro ach to issues of modernisation.